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Reggae united ww – Bobo Shanti:
- July 8, 2012
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Bobo Shanti is a spiritual Rastafari movement founded in Jamaica.
In the Rastafari movement there are other branches that springs out of that, namely; The Bobo shanti, the Niyabinghi, the twelve tribes of Israel, and other.
Bobo shanti movement was founded in 1958 by Emanuel Charles Edward.
The term Bobo Shanti is taken from the biblical verse John 14:2 “in father’s house are many mansions”.
The Bobo Shanti use Revelations 5 to justify Prince Emmanuel as the re-incarnate of the Christ. He is regarded as the reincarnate Black Christ in a priestly state. He was called “Prince Emmanuel Charles Edwards by most members of the Bobo Shanti, without Mother or Father, a Priest of Melchezidek, the Black Christ in the Flesh.” He, along with Haile Selassie are seen as Gods.
Marcus Garvey is regarded as a prophet, and the three are seen as a Holy Trinity. The Bobo Shanti believe that there should be repatriation of all black people to Africa. In addition the Bobo Shanti order also believe that black people should be reimbursed monetarily for slavery.
The Bobo Shanti are a self-sufficient group that make and sell straw hats and brooms to support the community and grow their own produce.
The growing of their own food is also a way of preserving the natural nutrients of the crops intact in within their own way of food growing.
This also enables the bobo Shanti movement to boycott the western foods which are injected and mixed with toxins and toxic chemicals.
The members of this order do not smoke marijuana in public as it is only reserved for worship among members.
Rastafari movement
Reggae artists who belong to the Bobo Shanti movement.
The Abyssiniana, Anthony B, Capleton, Sizzla Kalonji, Fantan Mojah, Jah Mason,
Junior Kelly, Lutan Fyah, Ras Shiloh, Pressure, Bobocity.